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TIL: Whoopi Goldberg is member of the NRA
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oW6o
TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien and Hitler fought against each other in the Battle of Somme (WWI)
D18yg
TIL that the words "ton" and "tonne" refer to different units of weight. A British ton, or "gross ton" is 2,240 pounds or 1,016.047 kg. A US ton, or "net ton" is equal to 2,000 pounds or 907.1847 kg. A tonne, or "metric ton" is equal to 1,000 kg.
x6Le1
TIL a tropical storm hit Long Beach, California in 1939 which is the only cyclone to make landfall in California in the twentieth century. Such events are rare in the Pacific because cyclones feed off the energy stored in warm ocean waters but weaken in the cool waters of the California Current
kPdB
TIL Bill O'Reilly doubled down on the ‘tide goes in’ argument… against Stephen Hawking
Oow86
TIL that in 1961 an aircraft crash nearly set off a nuclear detonation 250x the size of Hiroshima in North Carolina. The only thing that prevented it from going off was a simple low voltage safety switch.